Jerusalem on verge of exploding - article by Chris Doyle in Arab News, 19 April 2021

Caabu's Chair and senior Conservative MP Rt Hon David Jones has written to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson (and also the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab) about his views on the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to initiate an investigation into possible war crimes in Palestine. 

In the letter he writes: 

Caabu invites you to an online briefing on Tuesday 11 May at 2pm (UK time) with Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash, who will be speaking about their book: The Middle East Crisis Factory: Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance, published by Hurst Publishers. Sign up here. The event was rescheduled from a previous date and time.

Caabu is one of thirteen organisations working on Palestine who have signed this statement on the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson's comments on the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into alleged grave crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory. 

UK charities statement on the Prime Minister’s comments on the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation

14 April 2021

Caabu invites you to an online briefing on Tuesday 20 April at 2pm (UK time) with Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post journalist and author, Joby Warrick who will be speaking about his book: Red Line: The Unravelling of Syria and the Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World. Sign up here.

Caabu and Palestine Solidarity Campaign hosted an event: This is Apartheid: Caabu and PSC online briefing on the realities for Palestinians living under occupation, on 22 March, with renowned Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu of Al-Shabaka and Hagai El Ad of, Executive Director of the largest Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem.

On the tenth anniversary of the Syrian crisis, Chris Doyle spoke to both Sky News and Al Jazeera English. 

1) On Al Jazeera English Chris Doyle discusses how the international community let down the Syrian opposition. The “international community over-promised, under-delivered; when you had President Obama, British, French, German leaders saying Assad had to stand aside - it triggered an expectation they were going to back this up”

Caabu hosted an online briefing on the impact of Israeli military detention on Palestinian children on Thursday 11 March with two young Palestinian former detainees who will spoke of their experiences of military detention and the impact of that, as well as representatives from DCIP, LPHR and Save the Children UK. The contributions from the young former child detainees have been edited out of this recording for safeguarding purposes.

Following the publication of Israel's largest human rights group B'Tselem's landmark report: A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid, Caabu and Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK (PSC) would like to invite you to This is Apartheid: Caabu and PSC online briefing on the realities for Palestinians living under occupation on Monday 22 March at 6:30pm (UK time GMT).

Caabu hosted an online briefing on Libya: Ten Years On, Libya's Uprising Revisited on Tuesday 9 March, with speakers Mary Fitzgerald, Hala Bugaighis and Emadeddin Badi. The speakers reviewed the ten years since the uprising in Libya and assessed what are the prospects for the country with the recent formation of the interim unity government in Libya and the scheduled elections later this year.